The Music of the Primes: Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters

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It spent more time on the failures, the people whose careers were blighted by trying to prove the Hypothesis, not to mention John "Beautiful Mind" Nash's disastrous public breakdown while lecturing on the subject.

The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy Review: The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy

On April 7, 1997, computer screens across the mathematical world flashed up some extraordinary news. I suppose in conjunction with a real math book, this could give some interesting insights into the history of our understanding of prime numbers, but I felt ultimately that the lack of real math in the book made it a lot less enjoyable and informative than it could have been. Connes is based at France’s answer to the Institute in Princeton, the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Paris.The list of protagonists include Euclid, Euler, Gauss, Riemann, Polignac, Hilbert, Hardy, Littlewood, Ramanujan, Godel, Turing to name a few. I think it’s really easy as a young mathematician to decide you only like one side of maths and neglect the other but school maths does not give you enough to go on. The tingle factor stimulated by some pieces of music is something mathematics is rarely able to match.

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Mel jsem pocit jako kdybych cetl chytlavout detektivku, kde v hlavni roli zlocince byla nepolapitelna Riemannova hypoteza. Just as we listen to a piece of music over and over, finding resonances we missed on first listening, mathematicians often get the same pleasure in rereading proofs, noticing the subtle nuances that make the piece hang together so effortlessly. I'm quite familiar with Fourier Analysis as applied to engineering and physics, but not to Number Theory. Since his arrival there in 1979, he has created a completely new language for understanding geometry.

Como en un reloj de 12 horas 9+4 o es 13 sino 1 (y así nos introduce la aritmética modular), cualquier referencia posterior a la aritmética modular la traviste de calculadoras de reloj. Wiles had proved that Fermat had been right in his claim that the equation x n + y n = z n has no solutions when n is bigger than 2. Although the book does not delve into any theory, it is tough not to keep reading about each of the protagonists and their achievements on the side. And, it must be said in an era of fake news and rootless factoids, there is nothing quite so practical as a good theory. You are not going to believe that a book on a math subject would be hard to put down but this book is brilliantly written.